Sean Ryan

In general I am enamored by the natural world. I love backpacking, photography, gardening, painting, poetry and greatly enjoy nights with tasty food paired with good company and conversation. I am passionate about, and genuinely interested in, efforts that attempt to make the world more sustainable and improve social and environmental well-being.

I am also a PhD candidate at the University of Notre Dame and currently studying the impacts of climate change on the morphology and genetics of a butterfly hybrid zone - Papilio glaucus / Papilio canadensis (Eastern and Canadian tiger swallowtails).

You are awesome Budha! Now we can send you a Backyard Genomics Explorer Kit so you will be equipped to catch butterflies this spring. Yana and I will give you a one-on-one lesson on how to catch them when we visit =)

Oct 20, 2014

Pieris Project: using citizen science to learn how species will respond to climate change